Mecha Crusade recruitment

[Jarval]

Jarval, as an avid mecha fan I'd love to role-play NPCs as needed. I'll be your buddy in that aspect if your up for that, as I've kinda wanted to test that aspect of PbP gaming. All you need to do is tell me what character to play and when, and I'll do such. This also allows me to be non-rules oriented.

Great! Glad to have you aboard CS It'll be after the introductory battle before you get an NPC role, but I'll try to work you into the first mission. BTW, could you send me your e-mail addy? It'll be the simplest way of sending you character info.

 

[garyh]

I just had a thought, Mirthcard.

Metabots combine three to six smaller mecha. Well, if we get just one more to go in, we can still get a metabot. It'd just have fewer BP. That'd still be interesting - half the team solo, half the team meta capable. It might even be better, since that way we could meta and still have allies on the battlefield.

Thoughts?

 

[Mirth]

I just had a thought, Mirthcard.

Metabots combine three to six smaller mecha. Well, if we get just one more to go in, we can still get a metabot. It'd just have fewer BP. That'd still be interesting - half the team solo, half the team meta capable. It might even be better, since that way we could meta and still have allies on the battlefield.

Thoughts?

Sounds good to me, garyh. I might even switch my character around and make him a Wing Captain with the Metabot feat.

I guess we just need to hear from The Black Kestrel and/or Mitchifer. Either (or both) of you guys game for some Metabot action?

 

[Sparrowhawk]

Drat!

I'm really miffed that I didn't see this in time to join before all the slots were full. Ah well.

 

[Jarval]

Re: Drat!

I'm really miffed that I didn't see this in time to join before all the slots were full. Ah well.

I'm seeing if I can get someone else to DM another mecha game, so you may not be out of luck.

 

[Creamsteak]

Multiple games in the same universe with both player groups being on the same side could be super-entertaining to read.

Here is one thing that is just an idea off the top of my head involving a mecha based game...

One DM acts as the opposition coordinator. This DM is basically devoted to scheming on the grandious scale of the universe. He states where the opposition is, where it is going, and how it is doing that.

Then, there are the DMs for the player groups. This is called the mission coordinator. These guys are basically relays. They only know a limited amount of stuff about the opposition (which the opposition coordinator reveals to the mission coordinator). Then, they create and run the missions. They inform the opposition coordinator of the results, how it was dealt with and such (the opposition coordinator would probably read the thread as well, but avoid posting too it).

Then you have the players... in thier own groups, talking to the Mission Coordinators and actually doing the actions.

I could easily act as an NPC under direct guidance of the Opposition Coordinator, that might know things that the mission coordinators do not know -or have been intentionally mis-informed about. As such, I could be VERY suprising at times, and create a certain veil of mystery for the Mission Coordinators...

Oooh... the possibilities. Then again, if Jarval doesn't like it... there is no reason to debate it. I'm just such a mecha fan after "piloting" in 6 or more campaigns that I get all these ideas flowing through my head at all times.

 

[garyh]

I really, really like the idea of a dual, opposed party game. Having Jarval be "mission commander" of the Solar Colony Military and a second DM as commander of the Earth Military is a spiffy idea, at least from this player's point of view.

Most of the time, the opposing squads are in different areas on different missions, but the occasional direct conflict between the two units... wow. WOW.

Good thinking, CS!!

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

I gotta say that's one heck of an idea CS. If it could be done i think it would be hella fun.

 

[Mitchifer]

Woo! I'm in!



Wow, the idea of opposing sides in the same universe sounds like a really cool idea! I'm all for a meta-bot, as long as there's some individual mecha action going on too. Anyway, a question about the military hierarchy. I'm assuming that mecha pilots are officers, so maybe we could have a majority of us be lieutenants, with a captain in charge (more exp would be needed, in game terms and in 'real life' for a major I would believe). So, any volunteers for the one in charge? (I don't mind if no-one else wants to)

Well, that's it for now. I'm off to work on my character.

--Mitchifer

 

[garyh]

Woo! I'm in!



Wow, the idea of opposing sides in the same universe sounds like a really cool idea! I'm all for a meta-bot, as long as there's some individual mecha action going on too. Anyway, a question about the military hierarchy. I'm assuming that mecha pilots are officers, so maybe we could have a majority of us be lieutenants, with a captain in charge (more exp would be needed, in game terms and in 'real life' for a major I would believe). So, any volunteers for the one in charge? (I don't mind if no-one else wants to)

Well, that's it for now. I'm off to work on my character.

--Mitchifer

Cool, we've got ourselves at least a three part metabot!!

I think whoever ends up being the squad commander should aslo be the metabot leader. It just makes the most sense, to me at least.